Example sentences of "[pers pn] do for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What can I do for a child ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My qualifications bear scrutiny , ’ Leith answered , ‘ but what do I do for a reference ? |
| 3 | ‘ Will I do for a start ? ’ |
| 4 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 6 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 7 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 8 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 9 | Nothing put me off , I 'm happy to say , but in the years before I got the chance to enjoy what I did for a living , I still had to pay the rent . |
| 10 | If you are George Goldner , Curator of Paintings at the Getty Museum , what do you do for a follow-up after you buy a great Rubens ( ‘ Samson destroying the temple ’ , see The Art Newspaper No. 25 , January 1993 , p. 9 ) ? |
| 11 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ he asked . |
| 13 | " What do you do for a living ? " a dealer asked the Sultan . |
| 14 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ So tell me , Gina Price , what do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 17 | If you were , if you were a castratie what would you do for a living ? |
| 18 | What do you do for a living ? |
| 19 | Er what does she do for a living ? |
| 20 | What are you doing for a holiday then Deb 's . |
| 21 | ‘ You told them what you did for a living ? ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , but you do for a programme . |
| 23 | They all know what you do for a living . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Look , Clive , I do n't like what you do for a living , I do n't like the way you treat girls at parties , I do n't like your taste in shirts and I do n't like the way you look . |
| 25 | Wha what is it that you do for a living ? |
| 26 | Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this . |
| 27 | ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I wonder what you do for a living ? ’ he asked thoughtfully . |
| 29 | Social worth in our society is related to the workplace : you are valued by what you do for a job , not what or who you are as a person . |
| 30 | Do you know what she did for a living ? |